2026 Ken A. Dill: Chemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Chemistry	115	615	542	257	207	434	59796

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1991 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For innovative and imaginative use of statistical theory and computer simulation to elucidate the ways in which long chainmolecules fold into specific structures such as globular proteins

Overview

Ken A. Dill is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in molecular biology, materials chemistry, statistical and nonlinear physics, cognitive neuroscience, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's work covers key topics including protein structure and dynamics, enzyme structure and function, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, origins and evolution of life, advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, functional brain connectivity studies, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ken A. Dill include:

Diet modulates brain network stability, a biomarker for brain aging, in young adults (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cryo-EM model validation recommendations based on outcomes of the 2019 EMDataResource challenge (2021), Nature Methods
The Protein Folding Problem: The Role of Theory (2021), Journal of Molecular Biology
Protein storytelling through physics (2020), Science
The Maximum Caliber Variational Principle for Nonequilibria (2020), Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Ken A. Dill frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Emiliano Brini, Corey Weistuch, Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, Alberto Pérez, and Jonathan Asher Pachter. These recurring partnerships contribute to multiple publications across a range of scientific journals.

The most common publication venues for their work include:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
arXiv (Cornell University)
Biophysical Journal

Ken A. Dill has received several distinctions during their career, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996, and Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1991. The APS fellowship came with a citation recognizing innovative and imaginative use of statistical theory and computer simulation to elucidate the folding of long-chain molecules into specific structures such as globular proteins.

Best Publications

Dominant forces in protein folding

Ken A. Dill

5275
Citations
From Levinthal to pathways to funnels

Ken A. Dill;Hue Sun Chan

3267
Citations
Principles of protein folding--a perspective from simple exact models.

Ken A. Dill;Sarina Bromberg;Kaizhi Yue;Klaus M. Fiebig

2071
Citations
The Protein-Folding Problem, 50 Years On

Ken A. Dill;Justin L. MacCallum

1903
Citations
Theory for the folding and stability of globular proteins.

Ken A. Dill

1809
Citations
The Protein Folding Problem

Ken A. Dill;S. Banu Ozkan;M. Scott Shell;Thomas R. Weikl

1399
Citations
A lattice statistical mechanics model of the conformational and sequence spaces of proteins

Kit Fun Lau;Ken A. Dill

1362
Citations
Denatured States of Proteins

Ken A. Dill;David Shortle

1251
Citations
A View of the Hydrophobic Effect

Noel T. Southall;Ken A. Dill;A. D. J. Haymet

1193
Citations
How ions affect the structure of water.

Barbara Hribar;Noel T. Southall;and Vojko Vlachy;Ken A. Dill

933
Citations
Molecular driving forces : statistical thermodynamics in biology, chemistry, physics, and nanoscience

Ken A. Dill;Sarina Bromberg

848
Citations
Automatic discovery of metastable states for the construction of Markov models of macromolecular conformational dynamics.

John D. Chodera;Nina Singhal;Vijay S. Pande;Ken A. Dill

772
Citations
Binding of Small-Molecule Ligands to Proteins: “What You See” Is Not Always “What You Get”

David L. Mobley;Ken A. Dill

673
Citations
Cooperativity in protein-folding kinetics.

Ken A. Dill;Klaus M. Fiebig;Hue Sun Chan

642
Citations
Protein folding in the landscape perspective: Chevron plots and non‐arrhenius kinetics

Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

637
Citations
Polymer principles and protein folding.

Ken A. Dill

615
Citations
Sequence-specific polypeptoids: a diverse family of heteropolymers with stable secondary structure.

Kent Kirshenbaum;Annelise E. Barron;Annelise E. Barron;Richard A. Goldsmith;Philippe Armand

603
Citations
Hydrogen bonding in globular proteins.

Douglas F. Sticke;Leonard G. Presta;Ken A. Dill;George D. Rose

599
Citations
The molecular mechanism of retention in reversed-phase liquid chromatography

John G. Dorsey;Ken A. Dill

595
Citations
Use of the Weighted Histogram Analysis Method for the Analysis of Simulated and Parallel Tempering Simulations.

John D. Chodera;William C. Swope;Jed W. Pitera;Chaok Seok

555
Citations
Statistical Potentials Extracted From Protein Structures: How Accurate Are They?

Paul D. Thomas;Ken A. Dill

542
Citations
Additivity principles in biochemistry.

Ken A. Dill

506
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hue Sun Chan University of Toronto

Alberto Perez University of Florida

Brian K. Shoichet University of California, San Francisco

John D. Chodera Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Ronald N. Zuckermann Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Kent Kirshenbaum New York University

Annelise E. Barron Stanford University

Paul D. Thomas University of Southern California

Ivet Bahar University of Pittsburgh

Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi Stony Brook University

External Links

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